Yeats was a great believer that poetry was for the ear.
For Yeats2015, we invite you to make your own recording of a Yeats poem and send it to us to upload to our website.
To Add Your Poetry Reading:
Please upload your Poetry Reading to SoundCloud & email the link to info@yeats2015.com – you may also include a Hi Res photo.
Yeats’ own recording of The Lake Isle of Innisfree was completed for the ‘wireless’ in 1932 and we are honoured that our patron, President Michael D Higgins will read his selected poem for Yeats2015. We are also honoured that the family of the late Seamus Heaney has given permission for his recording of What Then? for Yeats2015.
We hope to celebrate the poetry of WB Yeats by creating the world’s largest audio archive of recordings of his immense collection of poems. Many well-known poets, actors, writers, musicians, academics, politicians and journalists will help to create this archive and we will share them all here as part of this unique, world-first celebration of Yeats’ poetry.